Chapter 22 ofThe Mandalorian’s third season made mention of a dangerous Skywalker family secret.

In that same film,Princess Leia Organaalso learns that Vader was her biological father.

Naturally, this ruins her political future and eventually leads her to helm the Resistance against the First Order.

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This eventually contributes to his own fall to the Dark Side and the First Order.

Is Anakin’s Dark Side Identity a New Republic Problem?

PerhapsThe Mandalorianincluded this information to hint at further New Republic woes to come?

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